Top 13 Quotes & Sayings by Yul Brynner

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actor Yul Brynner.

Last updated on April 14, 2025.

Yuliy Borisovich Briner, known professionally as Yul Brynner, was a Russian-born actor, singer, model, photographer, author, television director and producer, best known for his portrayal of King Mongkut in the Rodgers and Hammerstein stage musical The King and I, for which he won two Tony Awards, and later an Academy Award for Best Actor for the film adaptation. He played the role 4,625 times on stage and became known for his shaved head, which he maintained as a personal trademark long after adopting it for The King and I. Considered one of the first Russian-American film stars, he was honored with a ceremony to put his handprints in front of Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood in 1956, and also received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960.

American - Actor | July 11, 1920 - October 10, 1985

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Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.

Yul Brynner

I have been offered a lot for my work, but never everything.

Yul Brynner

Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.

Yul Brynner

Now that I'm gone, I tell you, don't smoke.

Yul Brynner

When I am dead and buried, on my tombstone I would like to have it written, 'I have arrived.' Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.

Yul Brynner

I am just a nice, clean-cut Mongolian boy.

Yul Brynner

Whatever you do, don't smoke.

Yul Brynner

We are born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Everything in-between is a gift.

Yul Brynner

So it shall be written. So it shall be done.

Yul Brynner

Simple femininity is the most important thing about a woman, and it is a quality a great many women are in jeopardy of losing. Women are being emancipated out of their femininity in this modern age.

Yul Brynner

Whatever you do, don't do it.

Yul Brynner

People don't know my real self, and they're not about to find out.

Yul Brynner

If they believe only what they can see, why do we have classrooms?

Yul Brynner